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Blue Mountains - male climber injured after fall 8-Nov-2013 At 3:10:46 PM bigfish

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I think we as a climbing community should all learn from this and what to do and not to do when on a multi pitch in regard to top belaying. I have always believed that belaying off your harness for second is not the best practise, maybe it was back in the day with the limited devices available, but now with our reverso's and guide devices there is no need to. If your second has trouble and you need to perform a rescue or escape the belay it is extremely hard to do so. And imagine the forces it would put on you and then your safety set-up if they take a whipper as what has happened here. I went out climbing with a new partner recently, who was quite experienced and was surprised that he still used this practice and did not have a auto lock belay device for top belaying, I was glad to see that the rope did run up to the anchor before coming down to me.
I personally don't believe that a gri gri is good to use as a top belay device.
I would like to hear what people's thoughts are with using gri gir's on multi pitch climb's.

We should always question the techniques we use to see if they are the safest practise and be willing to change them if they are not.
You some how think you are safe on second, but I think this reiterates the importance to talk to your leader before he or she leaves the ground and ask what they are going to set up for your belay and that they have the gear to do it. I have gotten in the habit of doing this with some new climbers I have been going out with recently.

my thoughts are with the injured,
and personally after watching the video I think it is quite obvious the situation he is in now.